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theoreticalli · 2 days ago

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I put 30 tags on that dear evan hansen post. for the love of god don't click to expand the tags I'm so fucking sorry I just hate that awful fucking show so fucking much. oh fuck I've done it again in the tags here oh god

#theo.txt #I just realized more fucked up bullshit in the show while I was typing is all #and then wasted like an hour checking lyrics to make sure I wasn't misreading #no they do have zoe immediately backtrack her assertion that she won't let her brother's death change her view of their relationship (bad)#even though death and especially suicide often leads to valorization of the deceased #but all it takes is Evan's little connor pov song about all the things he (connor(evan)) noticed about her.#which are all very cute and extremely romantically coded.#and she takes this at face value! despite many of the listed traits being extremely odd things for a sibling to notice!#especially one she had a volatile to abusive relationship with!!! what the fuck!!!!#like ig you could argue. she's hoping he did secretly care and Evan's a new perspective that's not her parents #or on a meta level it's arguing that teens acting violently or abusively often lack other emotional and communicative outlets #however. the song is not good enough to be attempting either </3 #textually it seems like it's trying to do the former in that at no point does zoe see through Evan's premise and responds entirely genuinely #however. booo hiss that makes no sense evan is doing a horrible job of hiding his crush #and zoe either thinking connor was noticing her sexually or just not picking up on it?? for the sake of the duet?? either is bad.#in the former that only gives her more reason to shut off from him and from evan #and the latter just makes her and the writing worse lmfao #Alternatively if we're playing that connor was actually really sweet like evan and she (or we) could and should believe he'd say this #and he didn't know how to express his feelings (even these kind soft observant ones) except through violence #targeted at the objects of those feelings nonetheless!!!!! he cared for zoe but didn't know how to show it and so he harmed her!!!!#and therefore not only should we empathize with him but she should forgive him and immediately relinquish her anger after his death #because he was just so misunderstood and he cared :( never mind her experience directly affected by his actions #shit piss fuck take on humanizing people who abuse or do other violent acts. Dylan klebold apologia ass song #I'm not even like. God I'm all for trying to understand why people engage in destructive behaviors for the purpose of preventing them!#I'm for recognizing the personhood of every human including those who do terrible things. I think we have to.#NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!#god. again. everyone who talked abt this show saving teen mental health owes me money for my 2016 experiences.#also they should have to watch next to normal.

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